There's no one to stop you but yourself.

It all comes back to the basics. Serve customers the best-tasting food at a good value in a clean, comfortable restaurant, and they'll keep coming back.

The anger that appears to be building up between the sexes becomes more virulent with every day that passes. And far from women taking the blame... the fact is that men are invariably portrayed as the bad guys. Being a good man is like being a good Nazi.

You can do what you want to do. You can be what you want to be.

It was the closest to purgatory that I've ever experienced while I've been living.

If there are things you don't like in the world you grew up in, make your own life different.

In the beginning there was nothing and God said 'Let there be light', and there was still nothing but everybody could see it.

There's no one to stop you but yourself.

What people forget is that every movie that gets made keeps making money for somebody FOREVER.

I think the harder you work, the more luck you have.

Every child deserves a home and love. Period.

What do you need to start a business Three simple things know your product better than anyone. Know your customer and have a burning desire to succeed.

What do you need to start a business Three simple things know your product better than anyone know your customer and have a burning desire to succeed.

What do you need to start a business? Three simple things: know your product better than anyone. Know your customer, and have a burning desire to succeed.

Give everyone a chance to have a piece of the pie. If the pie's not big enough, make a bigger pie.

All programming is maintenance programming, because you are rarely writing original code.

The more you give to others, the more you get in return.

Don't be afraid to be unique or speak your mind, because that's what makes you different from everyone else.

I wanted to make a film about stupid people that was very vulgar and deeply stupid. From that moment on I can hardly be reproached for making a film that is about stupid people.

Reports of illegal migrants carrying deadly diseases such as swine flu, dengue fever, Ebola virus and tuberculosis are particularly concerning.

He sleeps fastest who sleeps alone.

I get nonplussed by all the Fifties retro-revival aesthetic. Would we really want to be in our pinnies in our kitchen weeping? I find the kitchen, housewifey aesthetic repugnant.

I usually only play with very close friends.

I do believe that most men live lives of quiet desperation. For despair, optimism is the only practical solution. Hope is practical. Because eliminate that and it's pretty scary. Hope at least gives you the option of living.

We might be workers, but we are not happy go-lucky jungle bunnies.

Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either.

In my next life, I want to be Jann Wenner.

Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.

I'm fearless.

I was so horrifically bad at tennis.

George Bush, Dick Cheney, every one of the speakers praised John Kerry's war record. No one said he was unfit. They said he has terrible judgment, and that's his record as a senator. Nobody questioned his military record.

Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.

The liberal feminist movement never imagined that women would take seriously the encouragement to become our own heroes and claim life for ourselves, on our terms, no matter who we are. Pro-choice and pro-life, Christian and not, poor and rich, black, white, gay and straight. It is a dream we all hold dear, and it's called the Tea Party.

There's so many strict ideas and rules, whether it's from religion or it's just generations and generations.

The biggest surprise has been making the adjustment after losing a game. In the NBA you could lose tonight and you have to put that game behind you because you have another game the next night.

My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual.

I think where it's going is toward what the music industry is like, where channels will be considered more like labels that carry the type of TV show that you like, and then you'll consume them however you can. For example, I don't really watch Showtime, but I bought 'Homeland,' and I've been watching every episode on my iPad.

In a certain way, novelists become unacknowledged historians, because we talk about small, tiny, little anonymous moments that won't necessarily make it into the history books.

Oh, I was completely hooked on movies and plays and theater from the time I was a day old - I was very, very early on in love with movies and I loved plays.

I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.

It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray.

Everyone has the potential to become an encourager. You don't have to be rich. You don't have to be a genius. You don't have to have it all together. All you have to do is care about people and initiate.